Mark E. Smith and The Fall: Art, Music and Politics

This is the first book of critical essays devoted to post-punk legends Mark E Smith and the Fall, examining the group form a number of different perspectives, including their relations with Manchester and the North, post-punk aestheticscultural politics, fandom and contemporary media. As John Peel famously said, this group was 'always different, yet always the same', and deserving of more academic attention than they have so far received.

Keywords

The Fall, Manchester, The North, Popular Music, Postpunk, Aesthetics, fandom